de Reves: Yes, that sort of thing, you know.
Prattle: Good Lord! Do you make any money by it?
de Reves: No. Hardly any.
Prattle: I say—why don't you chuck it?
de Reves: Oh, I don't know. Some people seem to like my stuff, rather. That's why I go on.
Prattle: I'd chuck it if there's no money in it.
de Reves: Ah, but then it's hardly in your line, is it? You'd hardly approve of poetry if there was money in it.
Prattle: Oh, I don't say that. If I could make as much by poetry as I can by betting I don't say I wouldn't try the poetry touch, only——
de Reves: Only what?
Prattle: Oh, I don't know. Only there seems more sense in betting, somehow.